22/2/2015

Following more than two centuries of fossil-fueled industrialization, during which the atmosphere has been used as a free dump for climate-changing pollution, an incipient era of carbon-pollution pricing is paying dividends to the ...

17/2/2015

Creating biofuels from waste produced by industry, farms, and households could generate 36,000 jobs in the UK and save around 37m tonnes of oil use annually by 2030, according to a new report.Across Europe, hundreds of thousands of new ...

1/12/2014

China should come out with more measures to tackle climate changeThe European Union may pressure Beijing to "scale up" its climate change commitments so that China can make considerable progress on its carbon emissions goals by 2025, says ...

17/11/2014

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has added to international calls on Australia to reveal its plans for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, telling an audience in Sydney that climate change "won't stop at the Pacific Islands".
In a speech ...

25/10/2014

The deal reached early Friday by the European Union to cap its greenhouse gas emissions was meant to increase pressure on the rest of the world to achieve a landmark accord on climate protection next year, the bloc’s leaders said.The ...

24/10/2014

European Union leaders struck a deal on a new target to cut carbon emissions out to 2030, calling it a new global standard but leaving critics warning that compromises had undermined the fight against climate change.
Talks in Brussels ...

18/10/2014

The biggest threat to mankind is not war and international conflict – it’s the fact that most governments never think about the long term.
This week the US Defense ­Department said natural disasters from climate change will lead to more ...

7/10/2014

The European Union made headway toward a deal on a strategy to shift to a low-carbon economy and boost security of energy supplies amid a natural-gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine.Energy and environment ministers from the EU’s 28 ...

21/9/2014

Two days before the UN Climate Summit in New York, three new studies paint the clearest picture yet of rising greenhouse gas emissions and the dwindling opportunity for staving off the worst impacts-and also of at least one way that huge ...

1/7/2014

Bill Shorten has vowed to re-fight the case for effective action against global warming, as he conceded Labor had underestimated the impact of the “anti-climate change brigade”.
The opposition leader reflected on the breakdown in ...

18/3/2014

Climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century, increasing the risk of violent conflict and wiping trillions of dollars off the global economy, a forthcoming UN report will warn.
The second of ...

23/1/2014

For years, Europe has tried to set the global standard for climate-change regulation, creating tough rules on emissions, mandating more use of renewable energy sources and arguably sacrificing some economic growth in the name of saving the ...

22/1/2014

Europe will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, the toughest climate change target of any region in the world, and will produce 27% of its energy from renewable sources by the same date.
The ...

22/1/2014

The UK's green economy has today received a significant boost, after the European Commission unveiled a new package of climate and energy policies designed to slash greenhouse gas emissions 40 per cent by 2030.The long-running ...

20/1/2014

European Greens are considering a challenge to the UK's tax breaks and incentives for shale gas under state aid rules, as the government holds out against a new renewable energy target for the EU.
Ministers have offered tax breaks to ...

18/1/2014

The EU will announce climate change targets for 2030 next week but sharp differences over priorities and an unwillingness to take the lead while global rivals hang back may result in a modest compromise deal.
The 2020 programme is widely ...

28/11/2013

Britain, France and Germany want to curtail further a European Union plan to regulate CO2 emissions from flights, setting up a clash with Brussels keen to maintain the bloc's climate policy which has sparked threats of a global trade ...

3/11/2013

Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report ...

22/10/2013

A U.N. deadline for countries to pen a new global climate change agreement in Paris is more than two years away, but already French officials are making the rounds to galvanize world support for the deal.
The diplomacy tour quietly began ...

14/10/2013

European Union environment ministers on Monday agreed to German demands to scrap an agreement to cap EU car emissions that Berlin argued would cost jobs and damage its premium auto makers.
After months of forceful lobbying from Germany, ...

4/10/2013

China, India and the U.S. joined other nations in approving a road map for building the first global market to reduce emissions from the $708 billion airlines industry.The executive committee of the International Civil Aviation ...

4/10/2013

The United Nations’ aviation agency approved the first steps toward a market-based approach to reduce emissions in the $708 billion airline industry.
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s assembly of nations from the U.S. to ...

1/10/2013

The European Union’s plan to keep its curbs on pollution from airlines is the main hindrance to an international agreement on a carbon market for the industry, according to a senior Indian official.
An accord discussed by the ...

30/9/2013

The European Union’s plan to keep its curbs on pollution from airlines is the main hindrance to an international agreement on a carbon market for the industry, according to a senior Indian official.
An accord discussed by the ...

27/9/2013

Europe cannot accept a global deal to curb the growth of aviation emissions through a markets-based scheme starting in 2020 unless it allows for regional measures to operate in the interim, its top climate change official said ...